The city of Berlin, Germany before World War II destruction. Views of tall buildings and busy streets. View from atop the Brandenburg Gate, looking down over the city. Men and women busy in their daily routine. Buses, Pedestrians, bicycles, cars along roads with many shops. A man cleans glass windows in a tall building overlooking Berliner Dom or Berlin Cathedral. Views from moving bus. Sign "Alexanderplatz" beneath elevated rail line in Alexanderplatz. Officer directing traffic helps a child to cross the road and instructs an old lady about directions. Two workers work up high in a tall building under construction. Trams pass through the rail tracks. Text "R W Keil Berlin" written on the tram. A U-Bahn train crosses the Oberbaumbrucke. Clip contains brief moments of audio heard at several of the scenes.
Accidental burning below decks from a flare accident on USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off South Vietnam. Sailors hold water hose lines all over the deck. Fire fighters with breathing apparatus. Several officers in khakis seen on deck. Sailors fight fire below deck at side of ship. Smoke rises from the burning area. Another U.S. Aircraft Carrier (USS Constellation or the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt) is seen nearby. Firefighter emerges and ascends steps from area of fire. He pulls off his breathing gear mask. Smoke continues to rise from the area of fire. (Vietnam War period).
Scenes from Funeral with full military honors, and burial at sea, for Lt. Commander Omar R. Ford, aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) in the Philippine Sea. A Navy Commander (Chaplain) at podium on deck. Ship's officers and company with bowed heads. Navy officers as pallbearers around flag-draped body. They commit the body to the deep. U.S. Destroyer, USS Chevalier (DD-805) and another Destroyer are seen in water nearby. Bugler plays taps. Marine honor guards fire three-volley rifle salute. Officer pallbearers ceremoniously fold the American flag and present it to Ship's Captain, John H. Iarrobino who carries it as he leaves the deck. A Commander announces the end of the ceremony.
A pallet containing several flag-draped coffins of those who perished in the October 26, 1966 fire, aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) are lowered to a pier from the ship, by crane. Several clergymen in robes stand on the pier. A flag on ship at half mast. Honor guard on pier with rifles. Sailors wheel the pallet of coffins across the pier. U.S. Navy Catholic Chaplain, Fr.Conall Richard Coughlin (who is stationed at Subic Bay) and the ship's Chaplain (Lt Commander) officiate on the ship's deck as coffins are placed on pallets.(The ship's own Catholic Chaplain, LCDR William John Garrity, perished, performing his duties, on October, 26, 1966, and is among these dead ). Sailors aboard the Oriskany open boxes of American flags as they prepare the coffins for transfer. Honor guard with rifles stand at parade rest on the pier. Church officials on the pier. A C-130 transport aircraft sits nearby with its rear door open ready to receive the coffins.
U.S. Army soldiers during the Korean War in South Korea. Stack of flamethrowers on the ground. 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry regiment, Battalion supply clerk shows a comrade how a flame thrower operates. One of the many wrecked bridges that had to be by passed. A military jeep passes by the bridge.
A group of British troops and a couple of U.S. soldiers show off their rifles. Brigadier Coad, CG of the British Unit walks to the 5th Cavalry Regiment CP. Brigadier Coad with General Hobart R Gay, CG of the 1st Cavalry Division.
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